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Ruby Lamp holds a recently
By Mary
discovered piece of a
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Seventy
f Troyan
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died, but 22 survived
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as Flight 242 attempt Air
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would go,” Ballard said. “I
believe in the Marines.
“Once a Marine, always a
Marine,” he said.
Microwave popcorn with
Sadie Hurst used to own the house yard.
10 years of study, scientists with Auburn
University and the Dauphin
Sea Lab figured out a Island
way to
measure how much nitrogen
an oyster can remove each
as it pumps water throughday
body. The scientists also its
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the oyster tissue to determinin
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Valley
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NEW HOPE, Ga. – Ruby Lamp
was
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Sunshine
gold
The Columbus, Miss., plant
displays one of the UH-72A Lakota
Light Utility Helicopters that it
built fromthe ground up for the
U.S. Army. (EADS North America photo)
By George R. Altman
Stridex Naturally Clear
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canola oil
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on her way to the mailbox a couple
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of weeks ago and shuffled her feet ■ Charge
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just a bit. The toe of her shoe
came to rest in the expansive front
doesn’t take much to bring it back
players.
snagged something.
yard, crashing en route from
up.”
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devices. to Atlanta on April 4, 1977,
total fat, saturated
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was
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of aMedal
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here.
Marines. Joining him
Satur-field
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Columnist
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Battle,
Councilman
to
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that includes
salaries, conemploye
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efficiently than its Europea
$11,819 per capita, above the
offices of Gov.
Robert Bentnational average of $10,459.
arts.
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ley, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby
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as a model
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and Sen.for
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were
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was
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small east
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While oysters are known
to
be one of nature’s best
natural
filters, new research suggests
there are limits to how
pollution they can cleanmuch
up.
In fact, some of the nation’s
Congressional Gold
estuaries are so overwhe
Medal awarded to one
with excess fertilizer lmed
of first black Marines
would take more oystersthat it
than
the bays can hold in
MONDAY
order to
By Sarah Cure
purify the water.
[email protected]
JANUARY
Adult oysters are known
Standing above him, Floto
filter about 50 gallons
rence Love leaned over to
SUNDAY
of water
kiss Melvin Ballard on his
daily. But existing research
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head as she whispered, “You
had
never fully address
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are.”
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2012
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FEDERAL SPENDING
from the water filtered
Ballard
glanced up and just
smiled as his family reveled
oyster, versus how muchby an
in an honor that was recently
pollution passed through
bestowed upon the 86-yearthe
old – the Congressional Gold
mal’s body back into the aniwater.
Medal.
In particul ar, scientis
On Saturday at Phillips
ts
CME
Church,
Ballard – a
sought to understand
Madison County native – was
much nitrogen oysters how inside
awarded the highest coninside
remove
gressional honor to a civilian
page 5
from the water. Nitrogen
page 3
for his military
is one The right
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of the key nutrients responsib
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for the creation of the
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more than 60
The Columbus, Miss.,years ago.
siana, and a similar deadLouiplant
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displays one of the health,
that builds in Mobile Bay zone
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UH-72ABalBallard
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was
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industries such as the Thyssenattend
the official ceremony
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theD.C, on June
in Washington,
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Ruby Lamp holds a recently discovered piece of a Southern
that
crashed in the yard of the home in which
now lives.
(EADS North America
mill,
and
farm
27 that recognized
ferphoto) the first
Orndorff
Troyan
Sunday, June
13,
2010
Seventy-two
died, but 22 survived as Flight 242 attempted
emergency
landing in New Hope, Ga. (The Huntsville Times/Mark McCarter)
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By George R. Altman
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the federal government
are tiny
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spends in the state per pergaltman@
plants.
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Southern
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Alabama: Tide dominates early,
1C
Auburn: Tigers stun Gamecocks,
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Flight
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Scientists
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While oysters are known to
be one of nature’s best natural
filters, new research suggests
there are limits to how much
pollution they can clean up.
In fact, some of the nation’s
estuaries are so overwhelmed
with excess fertilizer that it
would take more oysters than
the bays can hold in order to
purify the water.
Adult oysters are known to
filter about 50 gallons of water
daily. But existing research had
never fully addressed how
much pollution was removed
from the water filtered by an
oyster, versus how much pollution passed through the animal’s body back into the water.
In particular, scientists
sought to understand how
much nitrogen oysters remove
from the water. Nitrogen is one
of the key nutrients responsible
for the creation of the Gulf of
Mexico’s dead zone off Louisiana, and a similar dead zone
that builds in Mobile Bay each
year. Sewage treatment plants,
industries such as the ThyssenKrupp steel mill, and farm fertilizers all contribute nitrogen
to waterways. In the water,
nitrogen fuels the growth of
phytoplankton, which are tiny
plants.
After 10 years of study, scientists with Auburn University and the Dauphin Island
Sea Lab figured out a way to
measure how much nitrogen
an oyster can remove each day
as it pumps water through its
body. The scientists also analyzed the isotopes present in
the oyster tissue to determine
The crash of
Alabama: Tide domin
Sou1Cthern Airways
ates early,
Auburn: Tigers stun Game
cocks
Flig, 12C
ht 242
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